Oscar Statuettes Found!

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By Brian Linder

Reuters is reporting this morning that the missing Oscar statuettes have been found! Here's a bit from the story:

The missing Oscar statuettes were discovered on Sunday night in the last place one would expect to find a Hollywood star -- in trash bins behind a cheap supermarket in the Los Angeles district of Koreatown.

Police said that some if not all the 55 gold-plated statuettes stolen from the loading docks of a shipping company last week were recovered by a man who found them behind a ""Food 4 Less'' store and called a local television station, which alerted police.

A police spokesman said the man -- identified by KCBS-TV as Willie Fulgear -- was being questioned and that police were taking an inventory.

KCBS said Fulgear found 10 boxes in the trash bins behind the supermarket and put them in his car. KCBS said that when he opened them and saw what they were he called the television station, which in turn alerted authorities, exactly one week before the March 26 awards show.